by Angela Zhang | Nov 10, 2023 | Education, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — House representatives and experts are calling for urgent changes to United Nations humanitarian agencies involving Palestinian youth education on Israel over fears that the programs are spreading antisemitism. “Hatred is taught,” said Rep. Christopher...
by Elleiana Green and Jessica Ma | Nov 9, 2023 | Education, Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Jewish students and faculty members implored lawmakers on Wednesday to condemn antisemitic incidents and push back against hateful language on college campuses as Congress grapples with flared tensions related to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. ...
by Gaby Striano | Oct 26, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — As war wages in the Middle East, the House of Representatives looks to pass the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act. The bill requires the State Department to annually assess school curriculums in the West Bank and Gaza and report its...
by Elleiana Green | Oct 25, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Saying they want to protect students from explicit content in school, Republican lawmakers on October 18, 2023, pushed for parents to have more power over educators in deciding the materials used in schools. As books containing LGBTQ+ and Black stories...
by Elleiana Green | Oct 4, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Educators across the country have experienced negative impacts on their ability to teach due to the national discourse around book bans, a study published by First Book Research & Insights on Tuesday found. The study, which surveyed 1,500 educators...
by Gaby Striano | Sep 29, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Recent studies have found that climate change disrupts the education of 40 million students a year. Due to environmental disasters like the Maui wildfires and deteriorating infrastructure, those numbers are only expected to go up. For Rep. Jamaal Bowman...
by Ishmael Bonsu | Mar 1, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – In a second, lesser-known case, the Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments from individual borrowers about whether they have the legal standing to challenge the Department of Education’s student-debt relief plan. The court also considered...
by Jacob Wendler | Feb 28, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Hundreds of activists gathered outside the Supreme Court Tuesday morning to urge the justices to allow President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program to take effect. Inside the high court, the justices heard oral arguments in Biden v. Nebraska, a case...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 28, 2023 | Education, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday for Biden v. Nebraska, a case which challenges President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 for those with federally held student debts. The case looked at two major issues: standing and merit. The...
by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas | Feb 15, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The surging popularity of ChatGPT has raised concerns about the future of learning, but several experts say educators should embrace the tool. ChatGPT – short for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer – is an artificial intelligence chatbot that was...
by Joanna Hou | Feb 9, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Job openings nationwide increased to 11 million in 2022, even as the rate of college-educated adults continues to increase. To address this disparity, the Republican-led Education and Workforce Committee met on Wednesday to explore alternative systems to...
by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas | Feb 8, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers reintroduced the American Teacher Act on Wednesday, following President Joe Biden’s call to raise teacher salaries during his State of the Union address this week. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) introduced the bill last year, and if...
